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“My Sunshine Away” By M.O. Walsh. Amy Einhorn Books, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York, 2015. 320 pages. $26.95.For the boy coming of age in Baton Rouge in the early 1990s in M.O. Walsh’s gorgeous novel “My Sunshine Away,” his moment of reckoning, his summons to his higher self, pivots on his realization of all the times he had not helped his loved ones in times of great suffering.

While some eager viewers are champing at the bit (or ball gag, as the case may be) for this weekend’s big-screen release of “50 Shades of Grey,” we’re more in the mood for levity than the lash. If the raunch of this year’s must-see Valentine’s Day...